The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1887-02-05
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


Temperance Union has planted an oak
tree over the grave of DR. Benjamin
Rush at Philadelphia and erected there
q memorial tablet.
Travelling managers find they need
actors more than they need Autographs.
Starting out with several reams of pic
ture paper in one hand and bundle
of sticks in the other is not good
scheme. m o. Ricayune.
An Indian doctor in San Francisco
rejoices in the nlme of Cherwltzmile-
zinotarbocker Finite Meerkhan, and a
police justice almost dislocated his Jaw
in attempting to pronounce sentence
upon him for practicing without a Ii.
cense.
AT Nebraska wedding the groom
was delayed and his double, V and
who looked precisely like him, slipped
in and was married in his place With
out the fraud being perceived, re-
markable instance of double we'd
ding. Texas SJtings
How many big, strong. active men
in this big State of ours are striving to
get y living without workp ] mean
real, sure-enough legitimate work.
This Is one of the questions the census
taker does not put to tho free Ameri-
can citizen. Gdlceston (Ier. Netos.
1T has been asoertained that there
are several spots in the Atlantic Ocean
which are over four miles In depth.
They are nice, quiet spots to which an
old whale can retire to smoke his pipe
and wonder over the general wicked
ness Of mankind. Detroit Free Press.
in Greensborough, Ala, has been
organized a society of seventeen young
and pretty ladies, the principal feature
being to do away with the odious habit
OF speaking i'll Of any one. Meetings
are held every week and each member
who has been guilty Of violating the
society's laws is fined one cent.
George Westinghouse, Jr., the in
'entor of the Westinghouse brake, has
secured q patent for new system Of
distributing electricity for lighting
and other purposes, which 1t Is said,
will effect saving of ninety-ilve per
cent. in the distributing main wires
and greatly cheaper the electric light.
-BW1dlo EnpresS
when burglars entered the house
OF Silas Andrews, Of Mnnayunk, Pa,
the other night, and Mrs. Andrews
awoke and found them at her bedside,
she said: "Gentlemen, the old man has
got two dollar bill in his vest pocket.
and there's a silver-plated sugar boy
in the pantry. Take the plumber and
get ont, and don't leave any doors
open after YOU" They thanked her
and took the money and left. - Phild.
deiphid Press.
The other day Rev. Francis How
ard, of North Washington, Me, while
hunting for his COW in the woods, camo
face to face with u big black bear.
Though seventy years Of age, the cler-
gyman Skinned up tree with remark
able celebrity, and the bear, apparently
not caring to take the trouble to climb
after him, looked him over for while
and then strolled Off Thereupon Mr.
Howard came down and went home IN
quicker time than he had made for years
before. - Boston journal.
Our New York lnanciers now re.
siding in Canada must look out that
The tinanciers there don't get the best
81 them. One of these sharp Canueks
sold steer which he had
irlven into town. for twenty-five dollars.
Before delivering the sold IL again, re.
Giving tive dollars on account. Then
the operation and received
twenty-five dollars down, and delivered
he animal. The last purchaser found
hat the steer was under chattel mort.
gage to fourth person. IN Y. SIN.
Eugene Tyler. of Adairville, Ky,
) not quite as full Of electricity as the
foung man who sets things on fire by
ooking at them, but he Is pretty well
charged. II is said that after rubbing
lis hands together quickly, he can
place them on mans shoulders and
control him completely, and that no
me has yet been found who can resist
he influence thus exerted He can
llso light II gas jet by an electric spark
sent from his finger two feet away
rom the burner Louisville Courier.
j0nFHdl.
"A young man Of Griffin, Ga, anx-
GUS TO make a good impression on
Young woman, visitor, whom he was
-aking 10 church, displayed five
iollar gold piece, intimating that 1t
was for the contribution box When
she expressed surprise ut the amount,
he MISC intimated that il was his GUS
.omary contribution. But he forgot
hal the custom then was TO announce
Inc amount of the collection, and was
shocked to hear It given out as three
dollars and soventy-iive cents. He had
copper coin for the gold
one. atlanta Constitution.
DR. Engram, of Buenayista, Ca,
visited negro woman who had q con-
gestive chill. He thought she would
die very soon, but prepared some
brandy and ammonia to inject hypo-
dermically for temporary relief. When
he returned to the patient she was
pulseless, her heart had ceased beating,
she was dead. As an experiment, no
says. with no expectation of the re-
suits that followed, he inserted the
syringe directly over the heart, and
pressed it slowly until he thought it
touched that organ, and injected the
brandy and ammonia. Very soon the
heart began beating feebly, before long
the pulse was pereeptible, and at last
accounts the woman was getting well
IN Y. Sun